「宝島」を読む前に覚えたい英単語40
Treasure Island
ロバート・ルイス・スティーヴンソンが「宝島」で何度も使う、英語の頻出4,000語に入らない40語です。先に覚えておくと、最初の章がずっと読みやすくなります。各単語に発音記号、意味、本文の例文をつけました。
squire/ˈskwaɪɹ/郷士, 地方の名士本文に99回
And, now I come to think of it, I might as well ride round there myself and report to him or squire.
sail/ˈseɪɫ/航海する本文に57回
And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper accustomed to be obeyed or to strike.
till/ˈtɪɫ/…まで[ずっと]本文に53回
Nor would he allow anyone to leave the inn till he had drunk himself sleepy and reeled off to bed.
treasure/ˈtɹɛʒɝ/宝物, 財宝本文に44回
What I want to know is this: Supposing that I have here in my pocket some clue to where Flint buried his treasure, will that treasure amount to much?”
stockade/ˈstɑˌkeɪd/防御さく本文に37回
From the ship we could see nothing of the house or stockade, for they were quite buried among trees …
ashore/əˈʃɔɹ/岸へ本文に37回
… knew all the seafaring men in Bristol, had lost his health ashore, and wanted a good berth as cook to get to sea again.
aboard/əˈbɔɹd/の中へ本文に34回
… I will!—to that eternal doctor swab, and tell him to pipe all hands—magistrates and sich—and he’ll lay ’em aboard at the Admiral Benbow—all old Flint’s crew, man and boy …
mate/ˈmeɪt/仲間, 友達本文に32回
Much company, mate?”
buccaneer/ˌbəkəˈniɹ/海賊本文に28回
“It’s the name of a buccaneer of my acquaintance; and I call you by it for the sake of shortness …
anchorage/ˈæŋkɝədʒ/停泊地, 投びょう地本文に28回
… names of hills and bays and inlets, and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to a safe anchorage upon its shores.
schooner/ˈskunɝ/スクーナー本文に28回
You never imagined a sweeter schooner—a child might sail her—two hundred tons; name, Hispaniola.
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/思う本文に27回
But you’re able to hear, I reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough.
fancy/ˈfænsi/空想したもの, 根拠のない考え本文に27回
And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.
thunder/ˈθəndɝ/雷のような大きな音本文に26回
The captain had been struck dead by thundering apoplexy.
mutineer/ˌmjutəˈnɪɹ/暴徒本文に24回
There was nothing left for me but death by starvation or death by the hands of the mutineers.
coracle/ˈkɔɹəkəɫ/ヤナギの枝を編み獣皮を張った小船本文に24回
I had not then seen a coracle, such as the ancient Britons made …
crutch/ˈkɹətʃ/松葉づえ本文に24回
His left leg was cut off close by the hip, and under the left shoulder he carried a crutch, which he managed with wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like a bird.
musket/ˈməskət/マスケット銃旧式の歩兵銃本文に23回
‘As for you, Benjamin Gunn,’ says they, ‘here’s a musket,’ they says, ‘and a spade, and pick-axe.
stern/ˈstɝn/厳格な, 断固とした本文に23回
“Now, Morgan,” said Long John very sternly, “you never clapped your eyes on that Black—Black Dog before, did you, now?”
whistle/ˈhwɪsəɫ/口笛を吹く本文に23回
I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:
seaman/ˈsimən/水夫, 船乗り, 船員本文に21回
When a seaman did put up at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did, making by the coast road for Bristol) he would look in at him through the curtained door before he entered the parlour …
pistol/ˈpɪstəɫ/ピストル, 拳銃本文に21回
All they would do was to give me a loaded pistol lest we were attacked, and to promise to have horses ready saddled in case we were pursued on our return …
tide/ˈtaɪd/潮[の干満], 潮流本文に19回
“Why, by the powers,” cried Long John, “if we do, we’ll miss the morning tide!”
north/ˈnɔɹθ/北の, 北部の, 北向きの本文に18回
… but above all, three crosses of red ink—two on the north part of the island, one in the southwest—and beside this last …
meantime/ˈminˌtaɪm/その間に本文に18回
In the meantime, the captain gradually brightened up at his own music, and at last flapped his hand upon the table before him in a way we all knew to mean silence.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/本文に18回
And here, sure enough, is my mate Bill, with a spy-glass under his arm, bless his old ’art, to be sure.
cutlass/ˈkətɫəs/そり身の短剣本文に17回
The captain had risen earlier than usual and set out down the beach, his cutlass swinging under the broad skirts of the old blue coat, his brass telescope under his arm …
sailor/ˈseɪɫɝ/水夫, 船員, 海員本文に17回
He sprang to his feet, drew and opened a sailor’s clasp-knife, and balancing it open on the palm of his hand, threatened to pin the doctor to the wall.
mast/ˈmæst/マスト, 帆柱本文に16回
But now I find that every man before the mast knows more than I do.
mat/ˈmæt/マット, 敷物, むしろ本文に16回
I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes—what do the doctor know of lands like that?—and I lived on rum …
roar/ˈɹɔɹ/とどろく, 鳴り響く, ゴーゴーいう本文に16回
On stormy nights, when the wind shook the four corners of the house and the surf roared along the cove and up the cliffs, I would see him in a thousand forms …
anchor/ˈæŋkɝ/いかり本文に16回
She lies at anchor, ready for sea.
breeze/ˈbɹiz/微風・そよ風, 軟風本文に16回
and had a steady breeze abeam and a quiet sea.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/顔色本文に15回
He was breathing very loud and hard, but his eyes were closed and his face a horrible colour.
coxswain舵手, かじ取り本文に15回
And the coxswain, Israel Hands, was a careful, wily, old, experienced seaman who could be trusted at a pinch with almost anything.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/マイル長さの単位本文に14回
Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast.
gig/ˈɡɪɡ/快速ボート本文に14回
A turn ashore’ll hurt nobody—the boats are still in the water; you can take the gigs, and as many as please may go ashore for the afternoon.
spit/ˈspɪt/つばを吐く本文に14回
It did all our hearts good to see him spit in his hand, knit his brows, and make the blade sing through the air.
haul/ˈhɔɫ/…を引っぱる本文に14回
“We was a-talkin’ of keel-hauling,” answered Morgan.
fool/ˈfuɫ/ばか者本文に14回
That doctor’s a fool, I tell you.
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